As a historical document, this book is far more entertaining than it has a right to be. It's a wonderful, funny, sad peek into the emotional agonies of a sexual era that is happily past. Or is it? You won't know quite whether to laugh or cry or thank Dr. Wakely for his almost criminally-Victorian little 1846 book whose original, full title is: "Woman and Her Secret Passions Containing an Exact Description of the Female Organs of Generation, Their Uses and Abuses, Together With a Detailed Account of the Causes and The Cure of the Solitary Vice." If that doesn't have you panting breathlessly, some of the good doctor's rather indiscreet patient stories will. Masturbation is the evil he seeks to cure and based on the cover, you'd be forgiven for assuming it was a bestseller. We don't know.